It was in 1991 when Prabhat Kumar Sinha and Pravin Kumar decided to stay back in Patna after returning back completing their engineering degrees from Karnataka to work in the state in developing the IT market which was non-existant then. In April 1992 both formed Astric Computers India Private Limited to start their trading in hardware which they procured from the famous Delhi market. It began slow and an office was opened on S.P.Verma road the first IT company to start their office which today has all offices on the same area.

Prabhat and Pravin then took a decision to partner with technology companies to start services as sales alone would not have taken them far. They shook hands with TVSE, HP, Epson and it continues till date today the company has partnership with all major names in hardware business for salesand services in the state of Bihar.

Later in the 90's their better half's also came in as directors with knowledge about handling the growing family at Astric and managing the day-to-day needs of a growing organization. The majority of Astric Computers (I) Pvt. Ltd. work is woven around hardware sales (distribution) and servicesand today the office space has also grown to about 10,000 sq. ft. in Samriddhi Complex alone on S.P.Verma Road in Patna.

Prabhat Kumar Sinha is our dynamic Director for the Group who did his B.E. in Computer Science (1987-91). He has been one of his own kind of flag bearers for the group since inception with enterprising, loveable persona, helping nature, ability to take risks and build upon dreams. He has a wide experience of almost two decades in IT industry and is unique professional in the state known for his devotion and abilities for thinking about state first and also as first generation entrepreneurs in his family. Father a bureaucrat and Mother a teacher Prabhat has great passion and appetite for societal impact projects. His interest is especially towards training and capacity building for the youth and backward masses of Bihar.

His philosophy to redefine ICT as Information for Collaboration in Transformation and zeal for creation of alliances and setting up new goals is unbelievable. Incidentally he is one of the most active person for the development of the state in IT field for some years including Bihar IT Association, Bihar Industry Association, and Executive Member of IT Core Committee-Govt. of Bihar, CII-Bihar and TiE Bihar Chapter. He has total dedication towards state building and no one can deter his religious goals which is embedded in his vision leading the mission for shining Bihar.

Pravin Kumar is also our Group Director and a 1990 batch Electronics Engineer and has a bend of mind towards technology and has stupendous skills in negotiation, has the skill set of knowing the market level knowledge and foreseeing the benefits for the organizations benefit much before competition. Has extreme passion to be the front runner, has fabulous entrepreneurship skills and can tickle to educate the best minds with his tricks and solutions in shortest possible time. Has extensive background in optimization and prioritization of marketing initiatives, has leadership experience in the IT Sales & services industry with extensive experience of building businesses. Also has vast experience in relevant brand management and advertising with a strong knowledge and appreciation of sophisticated marketing principles and is without a doubt the brain of our group.

He is involved in man management of entire group and enjoys sharing happiness with all at times he is involved with celebration with staff in good times and at bad times puts pressure on performance as nothing succeeds like success. Has always been a person known for his knowledge and understanding of situation handling in grave moments has always excelled.

Smt. Rimjhim Singh is also our Director, a post graduate in M.Sc from Burdwan University, West Bengal. Apart from handling the activities as homemaker with Prabhat she finds time to work on extensively towards administrative and managerial areas in office towards fulfilling her in-built skill both as a leading women entrepreneur and also as force to reckon with in the office towards good quality work.

Her focus is to empower women and organize various workshops in line with the motivational skill for inclusive growth, her efforts towards capacity building of honing the employability skills of the youth across the state with special focus on under privileged masses is remarkable. She is one of the pillars in the organization who has helped the other to adopt and provided a platform for performing class her skills of managing home, office and collaborative sessions of officials and students on a very limited time lines and has always excelled in all the fields. She has a charming personality and finesse of understanding of administrative things and hence takes charge of extremely tricky situations with a smile.

Smt. Kiran Gupta is our Director, a graduate with work experience of around 17 years. She is also a homemaker for Pravin and is one of the architects for the group who has been responsible for the overall management of accounts, logistics and human resource along with guiding the team on a day-to-day activities.

She also has proven herself in handling the infrastructure and program co-ordination. She is the jewel for the group in taking the leap towards the major objective of women empowerment and team building initiatives required in motivating the youth. She has a never say no attitude and sticks to the basics of work culture.

Rajiv Ranjan is a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering with Microsoft & Cisco Certifications (MCSE & CCNA), in-depth knowledge on advanced JAVA programming and a PG Diploma in Information & System Management, PG Diploma in Marketing Management. A keen researcher and trainer in the IT industry, successfully fulfilling responsibilities in the system study, development, implementation stages of various projects. He has worked as Senior Executive at TCS Ltd. and as Customer Support Manager at Wipro Infotech. Man management from analysis of breakdowns to closer of breakdowns along with all revenue based activities was the part of responsibilities. He is also taking care of IT e-Mall and Sony Center in Patna for retail sales and services.

Anindya Kumar Banerjee , popularly known as AKB, is our Chief Executive Officer apart from being technical with international certifications and exposure in business, corporate, MNC and Government is also a Marketing and Business development mastermind with two and half decade of experience in the IT industry. Worked with Governments across 20 states especially in education domain and is a pure relationship person. He is our mastermind with regards to all types of documentation, presentations and proposals. He has worked as consultant with P&RD Department Government of West Bengal from 2005 to 2007 (WBSRDA) was selected as Joint CEO for CHiPS (Nodal Agency IT- Government of Chhattisgarh in 2008) and also involved with The World Bank in Bihar for Teacher Education Project, he has trained more than 1000 engineering graduates on CAD and networking, has a knack for assisting and helping student community. Is a pure internet user with over 15 hours of surfing and participates actively in professional networking through www.linkedin.com groups. A social butterfly with regards to Information Technology industry in the eastern part of the country, a consultant to the core for all education and ICT projects including being the first to implement mobile governance in the country in 2006 in West Bengal and was named "CHAMPION" by UNDP.

Ajay Singh is a live wire for all trainees at Astric-Centre of Excellence handles queries of all sort from all ages with seriousness as well as a smiling face. He is the faculty for handling all Computer Courses. He has a little over 15 years of experience. He has been involved in day-to-day activities in skill development programs being held under MSME, Minority and other departments from time to time and enjoys taking extensive part in playing games with students of all ages imparting leadership skills and technical sessions. Works with Government employees who undergo the CCAC training as per Government of Bihar guidelines from NIELIT (formerly known as DOEACC). Has been trained by IBM on DB2 the world no. 1 RDBMS and is a PG with PGDCA way back in 1998.

Manoj Kumar has over 12 years of exposure a specialized trainer on administration and training, has got an MBA with specialisation in HR. Loves training on computer skills and enjoys his work. Handles queries of all sorts from all ages with seriousness as well as smiling face. Has knack and exposure in Skill Development sessions and is a part of Astric-CoE team. Works with Government employees who undergo the CCAC training as per Government of Bihar guidelines from NIELIT (formerly known as DOEACC). Over and also the single point of contact for NIESBUD courses. He is one of the resource persons involved in day-to-day activities at CoE.

Sweety Kumari is in her final year MCA and is the trainer who is always in demand and liked by all trainees. Her special interest lies in programming and web development. Network is an area where she is yearning for more knowledge, loves training fresher’s as the knowledge hence shared gives her unlimited happiness and satisfaction. She has a little over 2 years of experience but if one looks at her passion it is so untrue. Works with Government employees who undergo the CCAC training as per Government of Bihar guidelines from NIELIT (formerly known as DOEACC). Over and above is one of the master trainer for Astric-CoE. Has also got a good hand in art and craft and is trying to learn to replicate the work on canvas on a computer screen.

Manoj Kumar Upadhyay is having more than 6 years’ experience in training and capacity building on Computers, Tally ERP and Accounting is always in demand and liked by all due to his never say no attitude. A keen learner with interest in working closely with department officials and liaison with training professionals. He is involved in training of Government of Bihar officials for CCAC. Has an added responsibility to take care of office accounts and participates in hardware and networking activities in the centre of excellence.

An inspirational human being with more than 35 years of expertise in IS/IT in-depth know how of basic administration to complicated office work he has a never say no attitude. Jovial by nature has been helping Astric-CoE with his skill set in handling all work and coordination for all batches. Inputs are always expected with output he assists as Chief Consultant in day-to-day working from admission to examination to result publication to handling of course curriculum. Has outstanding value for making strong documentation for any given job. Has ample knowledge to make others feel inspired with dedicated work schedule and his habit of cracking jokes, is avid user of technological devices his favorite pastime being using his iPod and laptops.

Dr. Neena Jha is a Doctorate in Public Finance from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in 1996 and thereafter, B.Ed from Kanpur. With a vision to acquire and disseminate knowledge She combines an experience of teaching both village and urban school children and also university undergraduates in Delhi University. She taught at Sri Ventateshwara College, Delhi University. She joined Delhi Public School and was the Head of the English faculty of DPS, Patna. Since August 2009, Chief Operating Officer of Center of Excellence which is a PPP initiative of Astric Computers India Pvt. Ltd. With her vast experience and excellent linguistic skill she is conducting training programs for a diverse range of target audience including government employees, district and block level functionaries, graduate and undergraduate youth, professionals and home makers.

Rajiv Ranjan is a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering with Microsoft & Cisco Certifications (MCSE & CCNA), in-depth knowledge on advanced JAVA programming and a PG Diploma in Information & System Management, PG Diploma in Marketing Management. A keen researcher and trainer in the IT industry, successfully fulfilling responsibilities in the system study, development, implementation stages of various projects. He has worked as Senior Executive at TCS Ltd. and as Customer Support Manager at Wipro Infotech. Man management from analysis of breakdowns to closer of breakdowns along with all revenue based activities was the part of responsibilities. He is also taking care of IT e-Mall and Sony Center in Patna for retail sales and services.

Anindya Kumar Banerjee , popularly known as AKB, is our Chief Executive Officer apart from being technical with international certifications and exposure in business, corporate, MNC and Government is also a Marketing and Business development mastermind with two and half decade of experience in the IT industry. Worked with Governments across 20 states especially in education domain and is a pure relationship person. He is our mastermind with regards to all types of documentation, presentations and proposals. He has worked as consultant with P&RD Department Government of West Bengal from 2005 to 2007 (WBSRDA) was selected as Joint CEO for CHiPS (Nodal Agency IT- Government of Chhattisgarh in 2008) and also involved with The World Bank in Bihar for Teacher Education Project, he has trained more than 1000 engineering graduates on CAD and networking, has a knack for assisting and helping student community. Is a pure internet user with over 15 hours of surfing and participates actively in professional networking through www.linkedin.com groups. A social butterfly with regards to Information Technology industry in the eastern part of the country, a consultant to the core for all education and ICT projects including being the first to implement mobile governance in the country in 2006 in West Bengal and was named "CHAMPION" by UNDP.

Ajay Krishna Das is a Ph.D. in Psychology has over 15years of experience has a fascinating character and is a dedicated work force who has proved time and again that he is an asset to an organization. He has keen interest to learn new things from one and all, he is owner of a pleasing personality.

Works overtime to fulfill the pre-set goals has great skills on convincing his clientele on any given subject of course a talent which comes from his academic skills of learning human psychology. He works as Project Manager for SKW training and Co-Ordinator for all government training touching lives of people barred from livelihood issues so far so that they get trained and join hands towards governance.

In the year 2009 both the Directors, Prabhat Kumar Sinha and Pravin Kumar, decided to diversify towards training and education looking at the poor infrastructure available in the government segment and dreamt of Astric Solutions. In the year 2011 Astric Solutions came into existence with focus on training, capacity building, software development, turn-key solutions with regards to pure government segment.

Prabhat Kumar Sinha decided to head this from Khajpura, Patna location where an international level setup was created with desktop sharing technology along with fully air-conditioned labs and power backup with generator, invertor, UPS and hybrid(Solar-cum-Wind) energy. It also included bio-metric attendance system, IP monitoring technology, ample space for mass training and future growth.

We also created model outlet for retail sales of Hewlett Packard products by the name of "HP - World" at Jagmano Apartment, Ashiana More, Bailey Road, Sheikhpura, Patna under the supervision of Pravin Kumar.

Prabhat Kumar Sinha is our dynamic Director for the Group who did his B.E. in Computer Science (1987-91). He has been one of his own kind of flag bearers for the group since inception with enterprising, loveable persona, helping nature, ability to take risks and build upon dreams. He has a wide experience of almost two decades in IT industry and is unique professional in the state known for his devotion and abilities for thinking about state first and also as first generation entrepreneurs in his family. Father a bureaucrat and Mother a teacher Prabhat has great passion and appetite for societal impact projects. His interest is especially towards training and capacity building for the youth and backward masses of Bihar.

His philosophy to redefine ICT as Information for Collaboration in Transformation and zeal for creation of alliances and setting up new goals is unbelievable. Incidentally he is one of the most active person for the development of the state in IT field for some years including Bihar IT Association, Bihar Industry Association, and Executive Member of IT Core Committee-Govt. of Bihar, CII-Bihar and TiE Bihar Chapter. He has total dedication towards state building and no one can deter his religious goals which is embedded in his vision leading the mission for shining Bihar.

Pravin Kumar is also our Group Director and a 1990 batch Electronics Engineer and has a bend of mind towards technology and has stupendous skills in negotiation, has the skill set of knowing the market level knowledge and foreseeing the benefits for the organizations benefit much before competition. Has extreme passion to be the front runner, has fabulous entrepreneurship skills and can tickle to educate the best minds with his tricks and solutions in shortest possible time. Has extensive background in optimization and prioritization of marketing initiatives, has leadership experience in the IT Sales & services industry with extensive experience of building businesses. Also has vast experience in relevant brand management and advertising with a strong knowledge and appreciation of sophisticated marketing principles and is without a doubt the brain of our group.

He is involved in man management of entire group and enjoys sharing happiness with all at times he is involved with celebration with staff in good times and at bad times puts pressure on performance as nothing succeeds like success. Has always been a person known for his knowledge and understanding of situation handling in grave moments has always excelled.